So when that happens… Is there gonna be like a memory auction? Will I have to buy a whole ai training rig just to get the RAM?

I’ll just take your best guess.

Yeah, some honesty would be refreshing.

Though to be fair, when that actually happens you know what we call that? “X company just said the quiet part out loud”.

So yeah, there’s kinda no pleasing us either…

Lol

“Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels. […] What’s going on right now is that the TAM [ed: Total Addressable Market] and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.”

Let me translate that for you:

Yes we definitely want to support the consumers, but hey look, the thing is, these data centers want to buy a lot of memory, and guess what, they’re willing to buy it in bulk even at a huge mark up! Like just think about that… We’re gonna make so much money!

But uh, yeah uh, I feel you, that sucks bro and I appreciate you. But, dude, seriously, look at all this money! So yeah, stay strong guys, tweet about us! And don’t forget, if you want to be informed about the best memory deals, definitely sign up for our newsletter! Just put your email right in this field…

You know, I recall playing this at a friend’s house decades ago and being totally, utterly, stuck on the first level for like… many hours.

So yeah, you may be right about that.

Was there like, a maze in that level? I think I remember a maze that ultimately led to a smaller area of open water, where you were just like “well fuckin’ now what?”

Wow, thank you for sharing all of that. I know you’ve been through a lot, as it turns out adoption is not an easy road. Yeah I’d say we’re in the same boat here a lot of ways, we also adopted. He was 6 when he moved in with us, and he came with a lot of baggage. He apparently moved around the system a lot before he got to us, had a lot of different homes, and some of those were not good for him either.

So yeah, he definitely still has some problematic behaviors, he has not figured out how to be respectful to the people around him. But he’s beginning to be able to actually talk about his emotions, at least a bit. And the violence is was down from where it was a couple years ago. And OH MY GOD it was amazing when we found a medication that actually helped him! I have a new appreciation for SSRIs (they never did much for our first kid, so I had my doubts). But when we started him on that, I honestly I feel like that week was the start of a new era, like all of a sudden he was actually able to hear what people around him were saying, rather than just hearing his own anxieties reflected back. (The next goal is to get him to care about what other people are saying *sigh*) But yeah, that was still a turning point, it felt like he started learning how to interact with people for the first time that week.

Anyway, I don’t really like to get into all of this on the web, you really don’t know how long things can live online and I don’t want any of this to come back and embarrass him or anything. But yeah, thanks for reaching out I appreciate it more than I can express. And of course feel free to DM me any time if you want a non-judgmental ear too, I know how difficult and thankless this role can be.

Out of curiosity though, what state are you in? I know the state agencies that handle adoption can vary a lot from state to state and sometimes the services on offer to help out can be lacking. I think we are probably lucky to live in MA, I think the services available here are pretty good, even if DCF (dept of children and families) is currently a mess with budgets being slashed.

We have a whole lot of professionals involved. He certainly has unresolved emotions, as well as emotional delay and two other diagnoses. Don’t worry, we’re on it, there’s just a lot of work to do.

We have more professionals involved than you’d believe. Trust me, we’re working on it, but change is a slow road. You may have heard for instance that therapy only works if you want to change, well if a nine year old isn’t mature enough to want to change or be willing to participate in the process, well that also slows things down.

At the risk of being blunt here, I’m not really looking for parenting advice, I’m actually pretty sure we’re doing a decent job despite a particularly hard kid with some very real challenges.

But I do sincerely see that you mean well, and want to help, so thank you.

9 now. As he gets older the situation is getting better. But then again, he punches harder too.

Yeah, my kid is way too unpredictable, there’s is absolutely no way that I could ever have a firearm in my home or else this will be me or my wife, 100% certainty. We regularly get punched, kicked, bitten, etc almost daily. When he’s angry (which is often) he just can’t think, and then he regrets his actions later, but he does some dumb shit when he’s angry…

As someone who’s worked in IT for years, it’s my opinion that different is worse.

I don’t really mind supporting multiple operating systems, it is a little more of a hassle, but it’s far better than supporting users on systems they’re not familiar with. As much of a nice idea it is to “streamline” an organization by putting every machine on the same os, in my experience it actually works better to put everyone in whatever os they’re most comfortable with. For a lot of people computers are hard, period. And needing to learn new systems just to do their job is the kind of thing they have nightmares about.

When it comes right down to, any modern operating system will do just fine, they’re shockingly similar in the end. Plus, in many industries upwards of 80% of a user’s work may be in a browser anyway. So that’s where I stand, people should use whatever they want, and making people change isn’t a great idea.

I don’t think anyone wants to address the elephant in the room that even if the governor of a state had the balls to order state police to arrest ice agents, they wouldn’t obey the order.

I think the issue is more that if a governor did that, the president would use the CIA, and homeland security to kidnap that governor and their wife right out of their home and then call in the army to pacify the situation.

Well he’s not behind the current Reddit, I think that has something to do with it.

I’m gonna have my kid add “No AI used” to his lemonade stand sign. He’ll probably double his profits.

(so like $4).

Reality TV. Reality TV never changes…

Yeah… this seems pretty on brand really.

Actually, it seems really well themed, a messed up reality show is exactly the kind of thing you might find in a vault. The thing to remember though, is that Vault-Tec is supposed to be satirical… Bethesda should not become Vault-Tec because that would be unethical… Right Bethesda… Right?

Nah, let’s forget it, because it’s totally irrelevant.

You think Trump gave a shit who was in charge there?

Ok sure, but how much of the game will actually be generated by dolphins?

This will probably be just another example of HUMAN appropriation when plenty of dolphin developers are struggling to even find work in this industry. Maybe when dolphins are literally the subject matter of the game we could consider inclusivity in its development?

#dolphin_life #Phins_In_Gaming #NotMyEcco

Yeah, that does make them kind of a dick.

Russia figured out how to beat democracies.

It’s like a big business facing the threat of changing times, with newer, younger competitors taking a bite out of their profits. Do they try to shift their whole business model, try to pivot their whole behemoth operation? No. It’s much more cost effective to hire lobbyists and buy senators, to pass legislation to kill their competition. Even if they spend millions on this endeavor, it’s much cheaper and safer than actually changing their business.

Likewise, Russia has realized that fucking with the US directly is tricky, so they found a lever. They built huge troll farms, they launched a monumental propaganda campaign they developed new software and technologies for coordinating this propaganda. This was a huge investment, likely more than any country has ever spent on propaganda. But it was effective, it put an easy to manipulate psychopath who doesn’t care about the United States into the White House. While the price to accomplish the feat was high, the payoff was probably better.

Well, we wouldn’t be the first people to consider that question. This is basically why life insurance policies don’t cover suicide.

You might be surprised at how low the number is for a lot of people. What’s perhaps sadder, is that due to exchange rates, lives are worth more in some countries (some currencies) than others.

I guess my only point is that yes, some people can put a price on human life, even their own - and so probably others as well.